Technology Ventures Incubator hosts 9th Annual TechShow May 30, showcasing new enterprise companies
The Technology Ventures Incubator (TVI) at Stevens Institute of Technology will host its Ninth Annual TechShow Thursday, May 30, featuring exhibits by startup technology ventures that have received early assistance from TVI.
The TechShow will be held on the Stevens campus from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the fourth floor Bissinger Room of the Wesley J. Howe Center, one block east of 8th Street and Castle Point Terrace in Hoboken, N.J. The TechShow is fully booked for guests, but press are welcome. For parking and other arrangements please call or email the contact at the top of this release.
The program also features a luncheon and a panel discussion, which will consider the question, "Where's the Money in 2002?"
The moderator for the discussion is David Broderick, Esq., Partner, McCarter and English. The panel is comprised of Frank Abella, Jr., a Stevens alumnus and president of the Investment Partners Group; John Ason, professional angel investor; Caren Franzini, Executive Director, New Jersey Economic Development Authority; Jonathan Kane, Partner, Advanta Growth Capital; and Mark LaRosa, a Stevens alumnus and co-founder of Dynamic Mobile Data.
Stevens' Technology Ventures Incubator, New Jersey's most successful, is one of seven academic-related incubators in the state dedicated to assisting entrepreneurs in start-up ventures. TVI companies have generated more than 250 new jobs. They have been awarded 158 patents in their respective technologies and received over $23.5 million in external funding. TVI is supported in part by the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology and by corporate sponsors.
Gina Boesch, director of Stevens' TVI since its inception, says, "TechShow 2002 will share the TVI vision of accelerating the commercial application of high-value technology, whether it emanates from within Stevens or without. We hope that our guests will share this excitement and explore relationships with our TVI companies."
TVI is an important component of the Stevens educational environment called Technogenesis®, in which faculty, students and partners in business and government collaborate to nurture new technologies from innovation to real-world implementation.
For more information on TVI, please visit http:tvi.stevens.edu.
About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.
Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.
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